The Five Kalyanakas
| Kalyanaka | Tithi | Nakshatra |
|---|---|---|
| Chyavana (conception) | Bhadrapada Krishna 7 | Bharani |
| Janma (birth) | Jyeshtha Krishna 13 | Bharani |
| Diksha (renunciation) | Jyeshtha Krishna 14 | Bharani |
| Kevala Jnana (omniscience) | Paush Shukla 9 | Bharani |
| Nirvana (liberation) | Jyeshtha Krishna 13 | Bharani |
Months are given in the purnimanta convention, the one Hemachandra uses. For a Krishna-paksha date the Gujarati amanta name is one month earlier; Shukla dates are the same in both.
All five of his kalyanakas fall in Bharani. The first four sharing one nakshatra is true of every Tirthankara without exception; about ten then shift for the nirvana, and he is not among them. See the kalyanaka calendar.
Liberated on the Tithi He Was Born
Shantinatha’s nirvana falls on Jyeshtha Krishna 13 — the same tithi as his birth. A life that closes on the lunar day it opened.
He is also one of the Tirthankaras at whose birth the texts state that “the planets were in exaltation,” the recurring formula we examine on the Mahavira kundali page.
Shantinatha is unusual in another way the tradition emphasises: he was both a Chakravartin and a Tirthankara, holding universal sovereignty before renouncing it. His name means peace, and the tradition connects it to an epidemic that ended in his mother’s city during her pregnancy.
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His Birth Star, and Yours
Shantinatha was born under Bharani, in Mesha. If that is your janma nakshatra too, the tradition offers a devotional kinship: his kalyanaka days, his story, his image. Kinship, not destiny.
Our free kundali tool computes your janma nakshatra and tells you directly which Tirthankaras share it. The complete cross-verified table is at the birth stars of the 24 Tirthankaras.
Sources. Kalyanaka dates and nakshatras from Hemachandra's Trishashti-Shalaka-Purusha-Charitra (Johnson translation), read chapter by chapter, with the Kalpasutra cross-checked where it covers this Tirthankara. Biographical and iconographic details follow the standard references. Where the sects differ, both readings are shown; where a source does not state a value, we say so rather than infer it. Corrections are seva: tell us.